Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE MAL2015

 
TITLE Is-Semantika Lessikali fil-Malti

 
UM LEVEL 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course

 
MQF LEVEL 5

 
ECTS CREDITS 2

 
DEPARTMENT Maltese

 
DESCRIPTION Il-kors idur madwar il-kelma bħala unità fundamentali fl-istruttura tal-lingwa. Wara li nagħtu definizzjoni formali tal-kelma fil-Malti, naraw li l-kliem mhux maqtugħ għalih waħdu, imma qiegħed f’xibka ta’ relazzjonijiet mal-bqija tal-lessiku. Inħarsu lejn il-metodoloġiji ewlenin tas-semantika lessikali; jiġifieri

(i) ix-xebh semantiku inawgurat minn Jost Trier li fuqu hi msejsa l-analiżi tal-oqsma semantiċi,
(ii) ir-relazzjonijiet lessikali (is-sinonimija, l-antonimija, eċċ.) li għażilhom sistematikament għall-ewwel darba John Lyons, u
(iii) ir-relazzjonijiet lessikali sintagmatiċi ta’ Walter Porzig, l-aktar il-kollokazzjoni.

Għanijiet tal-Kors

L-għan ta' din it-taqsima-studju hu li jintroduċi lill-istudenti għal diversi aspetti semantiċi tal-lessiku Malti.

Kisbiet mit-Tagħlim

1. Tagħlim

Fi tmiem il-kors isiru konxji tar-relazzjonijiet kumplessi li jeżistu fi ħdan il-lessiku u jitgħallmu kif janalizzawhom minn punt di vista semantiku.

2. Ħiliet

Fi tmiem il-kors l-istudenti jkunu kapaċi jiżviluppaw ħiliet prattiċi fl-analiżi ta’ tifsir il-kliem u fit-tfassil ta’ xibka semantika għal numru ta’ oqsma semantiċi fil-Malti.

Biblijografija

- Cruse, D.A. (1986) Lexical Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Cruse, D.A. (2003) "The Lexicon". M. Aronoff & J. Rees-Miller (ed.), The Handbook of Linguistics. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
- Lyons, John. (1977) Semantics (2 volumi). Cambridge: CUP.
- Lyons, John. (1995) Linguistic Semantics: An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Spagnol, Michael. (2007) "Tieqa mbexxqa fuq is-Semantika Lessikali". Il-Malti LXXIX, 137-158.

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Lecture

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Assessment Due Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Assignment SEM2 Yes 30%
Presentation SEM2 Yes 70%

 
LECTURER/S Dwayne Ellul
Michael Spagnol

 

 
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